We truly live in the strangest timeline, where monored gets destroyed by monoblue burn.

15:14 Ive never seen the Blue damage animation in my life, this is amazing 😂

LVD: Explains the combo step by step in detail. Me: Nodding politely pretending I understand how it works

And this is another astonishingly cunning build from the wizard from Belgium. His kingdom has quite a reputation in brewing and he surely knows how to brew, beers i don't know but decks, definitly.

Man if I were that mono black in the first game I would be pissed lol. What a deck

You could name this deck Agatha's Nasty Soup, since she is throwing all sorts of things into the cauldron 😂😂

Geez, match 1 though. I would have quit so long before the end, just knowing I had absolutely lost, and yet LVD finds the win. That is the content I'm here for. LVD, you are just the best.

Memories of hermetic study, horseshoe crab, sigil of sleep. An elegant budget deck, from a more civilised age. 😊

Currently other MTGA content creators busy on copying and playing and discussing about worlds championship tournament and top 8 decks......... Meanwhile LVD making a never b4 seen Mono Blue Combo deck. One of the best brew ive ever seen. LOL LVD is the best! No drama, no flowering words, no face on screen (which is blocking the screen, and annoying! at least for me. since i want to watch the game , not to watch someone's face lol)

32:20 Not that it mattered in the end but I think you could have untapped the 6/6 Sleep Cursed Faerie to eat the 4/4 attacker here for free. Really enjoyed the video and deck though, keep up the great work! 😊

I made a simic brew focused on the combo, and I was pretty impressed with it. Crazy that some people took the combo to the World's championship. I'm excited to see how the mono blue version taking advantage of surge engine performs.

That first game, could you have gained Deathtouch with the Sleeper ability and then used Hellkite to ping things for 1?

At 32:40 the more straightforward win would be to exile Surge Engine with Cauldron, so you can make two of your creatures unblockable with Surge Engine's first ability.

Match 1.. *Chefs kiss* Bravo Luca, you're astounding!

"I created the best creature in standard". Yes LVD, yes you did 😅. Spiciest take on the hellkite/cauldron I've seen. Brilliant stuff!

Ouff, he did it again 😮. The thing. The Building-a-deck-I-didn't-even-think-was-possible-thing.

This deck is powerful because 1) at low mana this deck functions as a toolbox, and 2) the combo pieces are creatures that you can play as chump-blockers because you want them in the graveyard anyways.

You brewed well with this one!!!

Machine gun Shoeldred kill.. I love it!

So a slight correction and some more jank you may want to explore, if you use Rona's (or any other creature's) transform ability on *most* creatures, it won't do anything. If you were to use it on something like, oh I don't know, an Enduring Angel? Or an Elesh Norn? Something that has a transformed side, then it would actually flip to its backside without needing to meet its conditions. Or its front side, in the case of stuff like sagas that turn into creatures. Shame Fable of the Mirror Breaker is banned. So if you figure out a way to do that consistently, please do make a video on it. I'm sure some people would flip (hehe) when they learn of the interaction.

Awesome brew LVD, really showcases your game sense and ability to compare different lines of play 👏

One of the coolest decks I’ve ever seen, so dope

Imagine trying to explain your plays with this deck on paper lol

Aha, I knew Hypnotic Grifter's day to shine would come! I totally wasn't just hoarding every card I open in draft in a shoebox in my bedroom, no siree...

Lovely deck. It seems pretty good against the competitive ones.

That 1st game is pure LVD! 1 life ftw

Bullet chess clicking going on there at the end. Fun brew. This one requires fast fingers!

I don't have the Training Grounds, so it's time for Agatha of the Vile to shine in a horribly convoluted build!! Yay! At least I'll have Royal Treatment as protection...

Awesome as usual.

I constantly forget about those aftermath cards. It's hilarious sometimes I'll see an opponent play a card from it and I'm like wth is that!?... oh

Man you always have the most fun decks

What a cool deck! Amazing!

In Match 5, turn three, didn't you already have the chance to have infinite mana? After the first connive, when you drew the land, you still had one blue in the pool for abilities and enough normal mana for the cauldron to exile the sleep-cursed, put the 1/1 counter on the Hawker and then go off from there?

At 6:20 you could have also played training grounds and transformed rona

Never seen a better reason to play abrade lol

In "The end" any creature combo goes to BO1 unfortunately. Anyway, Legen seems the only one giving us new deck techs on last months.

Blue burn!? Let's gooooo! We have the tools, we can rebuild him xD

At about 25 minutes you mention nothing happening when you transform with rona, but I'll note some budget-ish beatdown focused versions of this use Delver of secrets in place of sleep cursed fae and you can actually transform deliver with Rona's ability to get a three power flyer without waiting on the luck of your reveals

21:50 if you put the omen hawker ability onto the grifter you can save it! it's taking 3 damage and you can give it 3 toughness by tapping it for 2 ability mana, conniving twice, and then have the +1/+1 from the cauldron! do you think this would've been better than looting with rona? curious to hear your thoughts, only seen this at worlds and i'm looking to pilot the deck lol

Exiling the black creature opens up a deathtouch ability right? Might have been more mana efficient?

Big brain Magic

brewer's kitchen would love to see this

Although not as consistent I’d add Kami of whispered hopes and sylvan security

Game 4 makes me want to see if there's a less combo-oriented version of this deck that plays a stompy midrange game and cuts some combo pieces, probably including Grifter and Hawker. I don't know what you do when you don't draw Training Grounds in that version of the deck though. Probably wants at least one other color, and I don't know which. Cauldron seems like a strong synergy piece, but not a key card for that version.

I love how much instant speed action and choices this deck demands from the pilot. I am considering crafting this, but I currently have zero Surge Engines and also no mythic rare wildcards. If you would have to replace the Surge Engines with something else, what would it be? Is there anything good, maybe even in a different color if need be?

I'm getting some necrotic ooze vibes here... *In mono blue*

I dont know about everyone but I don’t really like these clickbaity titles, I actually like knowing what the deck is and what’s it about

6:07 Didn’t play around “You are already dead” 😢

Those 4 kumenos 💀

If you Exile sheoldres you have the ability 2 DMG for every Draw Card.Sorry my english :D

Agatha's cauldron is far more terrifying in historic, though I'm glad you're trying to fit it into standard.

At 10 47 an all out attack, with the threat of level up in the sleepers probably wins the game in the spot for the enemy. He didn't see it tho

Would you consider running Moment of Truth over Impulse? You dig one less card deep but you have the upside of putting cards in the grave.

40:15 too fast for u mono-red eh? 😃

I wonder if the cauldron combo would work better or worse as a sultai build with tyvar

I would try to skip the Hellkite and try to mill my opponent, or try Surge Engine and attack with unblockable

I only watched the deck tech so far so maybe you explain it during the gameplay but wouldn't Make Disappear/Spell Stutter or another counterspell be pretty good to have over the 2x Impulse for example? You're holding up mana anyways and protecting your permanents seems important. Edit: Ah, you mentioned it at the end.

Around 22:01 cant you exile the one that creates mana for tapping, put counter on 3 1, tap it for 2 mana and connive twice to get it out of removal range?

I'm not understanding something. Why can you activate Hellkite's ability with just blue mana? Don't you need Energy Refractor or something to wash it red?

sweet

You are 200 IQ. I am Forrest Gump IQ.

Actually, I beg to differ. The best creature in the game is the creature that wins you the game in the current circumstances. Yes, you could play a 0 mana 300/300 with unblockable indestructible shroud hexproof haste vigilance and the abilities that say "This spell cannot be countered. While on the stack, this spell has hexproof. While on the stack, opponents can't activate abilities or cast spells. When this creature enters the battlefield, they untap. When this creature enters the battlefield, you win the game. When this creature enters the battlefield, each opponent exiles their hand, battlefield, and library. Opponents can't play lands, cast spells, or activate abilities. You and all permanents and spells you control have protection from everything you don't control. Any time an opponent would breath, they must exile all their permanents, their active effects, their battlefield, and their library, then they lose the game. You cannot lose the game, and your opponents cannot win the game. If this card is in your starting hand you may start with it on the battlefield. This creature cannot leave the battlefield. If this card is in your library, reveal it. If you reveal this card you cannot lose the game and you win the game."... But if you attack your opponent with a 1/1 with no blocks and they have no mana, cards they can cast, nor creatures and they only have 1 health, you still win the game.... but I guess that 300/300 is kinda good....

I don't understand why he doesnt play a second training grounds. It would discount the conniving and the draw 3 ability.

you missed the turn 3 kill!!! at 40:00 soul cauldron lets you use mana of any color to activate

found cosider, discard consider and get consider are really funny.

I'm interested why you don't play something like Spell Pierce, since the combo is very dependent on 2 permanents staying on the battlefield

Legenvd: Keeps an one-lander with full combo pieces, gets a land immediately next draw step, proceeds to annihilate his opponent. Me: Keeps an one-lander with full combo pieces on any deck, proceeds to draw 4+ mana cards, gets destroyed without ever playing anything all game...

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Man that surge engine card is pretty insane. Too bad it's blue and I can't stand blue. Sigh. Nice card, I like it. Feels like training grounds and surge engine can just win the game without worrying about going off.

Omen Hawker only makes blue mana, but the dragons ability costs red mana. How does this work?

In your first match, turn 3, why didn't you play a second training grounds and transformed rona?

HP is just a resource that only matters if you have less than 1! lmao

Im trying to make scheming fence work as a sideboard against this deck and its actually so much fun

no no no.... "I" created the best creature in standard and It's Atraxa with cauldron exiling Fleeting Spirit. It doesn't make infinite mana but it makes infinite card draw while being unkillable and untargettable :)

Tier 10 😂

That clickbait title is awesome. Degeneracy (in MTGA) is also awesome.

First game if you had played training grounds NR 2 the turn after you blew up sheoldred you could have connived the grifter for the win

I don't understand the joy it can give to win with a deck that can be used even by a child (I am referring to all combo decks, not this one in particular).